Steve Ivey (born February 28, Nashville, Tennessee, United States) is an American songwriter, record producer, musician, and audio engineer. He is owner of IMI (Ivey Music International) which distributes music in over 20 countries, and creator of IMI Webshops (an online digital music retail platform). In 2011, Ivey also diversified his companies and opened Simon Solar, which is a solar electric power company with one of the largest solar facilities in the US. It has several other solar sites in development currently in the southeast US. Music that Ivey produced or wrote has been on the Billboard top sales charts for over 1000 weeks consecutively, selling over 10 million CD's and songs. The Ivey Music International record label was one of Billboards #1 Label of The Decade for 2000 to 2010 awarded for the largest number of product sells in a genre. He has written, created, and produced music for a wide variety of music artists, music for film and television, comedy albums, and music for corporations. His music collaborations include working with Duck Dynasty, Mountain Man, Aaron Neville, Dolly Parton, Vince Gill, Mark Wills and many others. Biography Ivey began his career with a bachelor's degree in Music Performance Mercer university and a master's degree in Marketing/Communications and incorporated his company at age 21. His first studio recording experiences were in Macon GA with Paul Hornsby from the Muscadine Studio and Capricorn Studio. He married and relocated to Fort Worth, Texas to earn a master's degree and then moved to Nashville, TN to set up his business. The company name is IMI, which is Ivey Music International, as IMI's music can be found in over 20 countries around the globe. The IMI Studio is located in Franklin, Tennessee at The Sound Kitchen studio complex. Career He has written hundreds of songs with over 350 of his songs commercially recorded and released. Ivey plays multiple instruments and aside from producing and engineering he has been credited as playing the following instruments on various recordings (piano, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, mandolin, percussion, dobro, harmonica, keyboards, banjo, lap guitar, bass guitar, bazouki, lead and background vocals). Awards His music accomplishments and creation of a wide variety's of music styles have put him on many different Billboard charts: Holiday, Urban, Comedy, Heatseeker, Country, Bluegrass, Top Year End charts. He has been awarded and nominated for two Emmy Awards, three Grammy, two Tele Awards,